The Natural History of Selborne

My well, notwithstanding the rains is very low still, so that we let out all the rope to draw a bucket of water.

Vast rain.  Violent current in the street.

Bror. Henry left us.

Charles and Bessy White came.

Bror. Henry came.

No mushrooms: plenty in Rutland.

A ring-ouzel shot in Hindhead.

The dripping weather has lasted this day nine weeks, all thro’ haying, & harvest: much hay is also spoiled of the second cutting: so that men, having lost both crops, will in many parts be very short of fodder, especially, as turnips have missed in many places.

Turned the horses into the great meadow: there is a vast after grass, more than when the meadow was mowed in the summer.

Wasps much subdued.